MANN RANCH SEMINARS

ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMMER PROGRAM - 1972

MYTH • JUNG • RELIGION

(We are already taking reservations for the summer seminars. Because the number of participants for each seminar is limited, please register early if you are particularly enthusiastic about any specific seminars.)

JULY 18-20. HUSTON SMITH, THE GREAT RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. Dr. Smith is the author of .The

Religions of Man, and Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Limit 30 participants. ($53 or $67) *

JULY 21-23. STANISLAV GROF, M.D., LSD AND THE COSMIC GAME: OUTLINE OF PSYCHEDELIC COSMOLOGY AND ONTOLOGY OF BEING. Dr. Grof is an eminent researcher of hallucinogens in Czechoslovakia and the United States. Limit 35 participants. ($53 or $67) *

JULY 28-30. DONALD SANDNER, M.D., SYMBOLIC HEALING: A JUNGIAN APPROACH TO PSYCHO­LOGICAL CURING METHODS IN PRIMITIVE AND MODERN SOCIETIES. Dr. Sandner is a Jungian analyst in San Francisco and a student of Navaho culture. Limit 25 participants. ($53 or $67)*

AUG. 4-6. MELVIN KETTNER, M.D., A CLOSE LOOK AT JUNG AND HIS WORK. Dr. Kettner is a Jungian analyst in Berkeley and President of the Jungian Society of Analysts of Northern California. Limit 30 participants. 1 unit credit. ($53 or $67) *

AUG. 10-13. JOSEPH CAMPBELL, JUNGIAN PSYCHO­LOGY AND ARCHETYPES OF MYTHOLOGY. Mr. Campbell is author of The Hero with a Thousand

Faces, The Masks of God series; Editor of The Portable

Jung, 1971. Limit 35 participants.· 3-day weekend. ($75 or $95) *

AUG. 14-18. ALLAN FRANKEL, PERSONAL MYTH: THE STORY THAT MUST BE TOLD. A four-day workshop exploring personal myth through creative writing. Mr. Frankel is a prose writer, religious teacher, and teacher of creative writing for UC Berkeley. Limit 20 participants. ($97 or $125)*

AUG. 25-27. WINIFRED BABCOCK, QUANTUM PSY­CHOLOGY, exploring the structure of the psyche and the tunct1on of the Authority-Ego in Humankind, based on the work of Preston Harold, author of The

Shining Stranger and on "The Nature of Universal Cross-Action, Book Ill" of The Single Reality. Mrs. Babcock is the founder and President of the Harold Institute of Winston-Salem, N.C. Limit 30 participants. ($53 or $67)*

SEPT. 1-4. KATHARINE WHITESIDE TAYLOR, THE E SSENCE OF FEMININE AND MASCULINE: ACHIEVING WHOLENESS THROUGH THE HI EROS

GAMOS OR MARRIAGE WITHIN. Dr. Taylor is a psychotherapist and educator who has devoted many years to the teaching of humanistic psychology and to psychotherapy with groups and individuals. Limit 25 participants. 3-day weekend. ($75 or $95)*

*See FEES FOR SEMINARS under GENERAL INFORMATION for explanation of prices.

OTHER SEMINARS TO BE ANNOUNCED IN OUR SUMMER BROCHURE.

IF YOU HAVE NEVER CORRESPONDED WITH US, YOU ARE ON A BORROWED MAILING LIST. PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ON OUR MAILING LIST.

MAY 12-14 GESTALT THERAPY AND JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY- AN INTEGRATION with Francis Crary and Pat Henry. Limit 20 participants.

During this weekend experientiai awareness will be expanded to include fantasies, dreams, and polarities (the symbolical consciousness of Jung). Gestalt techniques and Jungian concepts of the archetypal symbology will be used to understand these inner experiences. Participants are asked to keep journals of fantasies and dreams prior to the workshop and to bring these with them.

FRANCIS CRARY is a teacher, poet, and farmer who is trained in the methods of Gestalt and Psychosynthesis. She combines these skills with her long-time interests in dreams, Jungian psychology, and "earth therapy," the aqu isition of insight and wisdom that comes only with a close relationship to the earth. PAT HENRY has worked extensively with Fritz Perls and -with other Gestaltists and has experienced many different approaches to self discovery, including three years of Jungian analysis and study. She has led Gestalt groups for Topanga inl.A. and for Mendocino State Hospital patients and staff and is currently teaching an extension course for Sonoma State College.

$50 per person (without lodging in ranch house).

$66 per person (includes lodging in ranch house).

MAY 19-21 ENCOUNTER THEATER WORKSHPP with Ken Michaels. Assisted by Philine Kirkwood and Susan Michaels. Limit 30 participants.

Each of us wears a mask that reveals as much as it conceals. In a comfortable atmosphere this seminar will introduce techniques through which individuals learn and laugh about their real and imagined identities. Fantasy and unconventionality are encouraged as positive methods for rell?ase of inhibited laughter and realization of the absurdity that surrounds us. Each participant is asked to buy or make a mask far the weekend. To stimulate spontaneity, creative yoga and structured and improvised serio-comic scenes will be used. To give insight into oneself and to help gain the ability to resal�e social conflicts, mini-psychodramas will oe enac1ea.

KENETH MICHAELS has an M.A. from Columbia in psychology and counseling; he has trained at Esalen and is currently a psychiatric counselor far Napa State Hospital. He and the Encounter Theater teach far UC Berkeley Extension. PHILINE KIRKWOOD has an M.A. equivalent in psychiatric arts from Zurich; she appeared in a TV special in Munich, That's Entertainment; she has performed at Bimbo's and Alexis in San Francisco. SUSAN MICHAELS is a yoga instructor currently teaching at San Francisco Day Treatment Center.

$50 per person (without lodging in ranch house).

$66 per person (includes lodging in ranch house).

MAY 26-29 (Memorial Day Weekend) ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS: UPHEAVAL AND RESYNTHESIS with John W. Perry, M.D. Limit 30 participants.

Myth is in a constant state of formation and reformation. This seminar will focus upon altered states of consciousness in persons today and in history. In times of cultural change, sensitive individuals experience the societal crisis in their awn psychic depths. Through their awn inner turmoil and the visions and the insights that issue from it, they encounter new symbols. Those individuals who are psychically well-endowed may provide new myth and ritual farms aut of this turbulent inner process of resynthesis. The reorganization farms around the images of the psychic center. Such experiences are documented by the founders of the great religions, by mystics, by social reformers, prophets and messiahs, and by individuals who in lesser ways experience the s

'ame depths in psychedelic, psychotic, or ather altered states of consciousness.

JOHN WEIR PERRY, M.D. is a Jungian analyst in San Francisco and an eminent authority an psychosis and schizophrenia. He is the author of The Self in Psychotic Process, 1952, and Lord of the Four Quarters: Myths

of the Royal Father, 1966.

$75 per person (without lodging in ranch house).

$95 per person (includes lodging in ranch house).

MANN RANCH SEMINARS P.O. Box 570

Ukiah, California 95482

(707) 462-3514

Larry Thomas, Director

Barbara McClintock, Program Director

The Mann Ranch is a 3500 acre working stock ranch, owned by the same family since t 904. (Larry Thomas, the director of the seminar program is of tire fourth of the five generations who have lived here.) The seminars are held in the sprawling old ranch house which combines some­thing of a 19th century E n g l i s h m anor with the pio neering western United States. The ''good weather" seminar dining room with a large stone fireplace is part of an outdoor porch which over­looks the long blue ridges and deep, forested canyons of the coastal foothills.

SPRING 1972

This spring and summer Mann Ranch Seminars is holding two seminar series whose general focus concerns the questions: what is the human condition today and what forms and structures are needed to give proper reference (centering) to the great diversity of human experience. The summer program from July 18- September 10 revolves specifically around Jungian psychology in conjunction with close studies of mythologies and religions, in an effort to better understand the wholeness of man's being- his unconscious as well as conscious self. As before, the groups will be small, the setting informal and intimate, with ample time for conversation and discussion with

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The Mann Ranch is 120 miles northwest of San Francisco, nine miles west of Ukiah. It is ideally located for those ·who would like to attend our programs as part of their vacations. We are 7 miles from Montgomery Redwood State Forest, 38 miles from the coastal town of Mendocino, 10 miles west of Lake Mendocino, and 29 miles from Clear Lake. Highway 101 north of Ukiah wanders through beautiful redwood country on its way to Eureka.

This year we are refurbishing the swimming pool in hopes that the ranch will further provide a pleasant vacation in itself as well as stimulating thought for the guests attending seminars.

JUNE 9-11

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THE SHAMAN'S LADDER TO ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS with Kim McKell, Ph. D.

This lecture and experiential seminar traces the shaman's archetypal descent and ascent of the ladder of consciousness, using as a paradigm the tantric chakras of Indian mythology. We will follow the hero's journey into the Cosmic Mountain, the I sland of Origination, and the depths of the Seas, encountering the creatures therein, meeting the symbols of the inward psychic journey as experienced by the first individualists, the shaman heroes and heroines of Mexico, I ndia, and Tibet: their sojourn into the schizophrenic world of dissociation, through the death of objective reality, and into rebirth at the alpha level of synchronistic awareness, which is experienced as a healing process. The participants are encouraged to bring colored pencils in order to relate to the symbolism of their personal mythology and to experience their connectedness with the plant and animal world that the shamans encountered.

KIM McKELL, Ph. D. is a teacher of Oriental-Western comparative psychology, myths and symbols in art, and oriental philosophy. She currently teaches at the California Institute of Asian Studies in San Francisco and for UC Berkeley Extension. She has led groups and seminars in the use of Yoga, fantasy projection, mythology, and groups interreactions.

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$53 per person (without lodging in ranch house).

$67 per person (includes lodging in ranch house).

JUNE 16-18 RE-EVALUATION EDUCATION: A METHOD OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING FOR LAY PEOPLE with Thomas J. Scheff, Ph. D. 20 participants.

Through lectures, demonstrations, and practice by the participants, Dr. Scheff will introduce his method for "unblocking" accumulated distress experiences which we carry with us from childhood. In order to recover the natural discharge processes and to reduce anxieties, two people take turns co-counseling with one another. The one acting as counselor listens in a wholly attentive but relaxed manner while the other relates past or current distresses. No confrontation-attack techniques are used and analysis is avoided. Insight and change occur spontaneously as part of re-evaluation after adequate discharge has taken place. The training is particularly valuable for teachers, parents, ministers, and practitioners.

THOMAS J. SCHEFF, Ph. D. is a professor of sociology and Chairman of the Sociology Department at UC Santa Barbara. He has given classes and demonstrations of re-evaluation counseling in Europe as well as in many cities in the United States. He is author of Being Mentally Ill, 1966, and Mental Illness and Social

Processes, 1967.

$53 per person (without lodging in ranch house).

$67 per person (includes lodging in ranch house).

Photography: James Russell

Design: Barbara McClintock

Cover: Youth and Dolphil).r Museo Nazionale, Naples

General Information

RESERVATIONS: To insure your reservation, it should be made as early as possible. Non-refundable deposits (see individual seminar descriptions for amounts) are required at time of reservation. If you are unable to attend a seminar for which you have made a deposit and if you so notify us at least two weeks prior to the seminar, we will be glad to apply your deposit toward another seminar of your choice if space is still available. Please mail application and make check for deposit payable to MANN RANCH SEMINARS, P.O. Box 570, Ukiah, California 95482. Balance of payment is due on arrival.

FEES FOR SEMINARS: All seminars and workshops are residential programs in so far as participants take their meals and attend the programs at the ranch house. The greater of the two prices listed by each seminar description is for the seminar, meals, and sleeping accommodations in the ranch house (2 to 3 in a room). The lesser of the two prices is for the seminar, meals, camping on the ranch or motel room in Ukiah (motel not included in our price). We will gladly make motel reservations for you provided that you send whatever deposit the motel requires directly to them upon notification from us of address and amount.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE TIMES: Seminars will begin with supper at 7:30P.M., and end after lunch on the last day. Those taking seminars for credit may be asked to stay until 4:00P.M. on the last day. The ranch bedrooms will not be ready for occupancy until 5:00 P.M. on the first day of each seminar;.

INTERIM ACCOMMODATIONS: For those who have attended seminars or who have reservations for up-coming seminars, we will accept a limited number of reservations' to stay at the ranch when they are not currently registered for a seminar. The ranch in general and the swimming pool will be open to such guests. $18/day per person for meals and lodging in ranch house;

$18 deposit required at time of reservation. $4/day per person for camping on ranch, no meals.

VISITORS BY RESERVATION ONLY: Please do not bring friends if they are not registered for a seminar.

CHILDREN: At this time we do not have facilities for children.

PETS: This is a working stock ranch. ABSOLUTELY NO DOGS ALLOWED UNDER ANY CONDITIONS WHATSOEVER!

DRESS: We are in the country; bring comfortable clothing. . .

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SWIMMING POOL: Will be open in early June.

COLLEGE CREDIT: We are now in the process of arranging with Sonoma State College for some of the seminars to be optional credit courses.

GREYHOUND BUSES: Service Ukiah from San Francisco and Eureka. For $2.00 we will meet your bus if you give us five days' notice.

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